Illegitimate Israeli regime cannot tolerate peace, security in region, across globe: Iran envoy

As Israel intensifies its efforts to derail talks aimed at reviving the Iran nuclear deal, an Iranian envoy says Tel Aviv’s “destructive” demand from Britain to reject the deal shows that the “illegitimate” regime cannot tolerate peace and security anywhere.

“Destructive demands by the Zionist Regime’s envoy from the UK once again shows that this illegitimate Regime cannot tolerate peace & security either in the region or in any other part of the world,” Mahdi Hosseini Matin, Iran’s charge d'affaires in London, said in a post on his Twitter account on Friday.

He added that the Tel Aviv regime cannot even stand Britain’s “right of sovereign decision” with regard to the nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).

In an article in the British daily broadsheet newspaper The Telegraph, Israel’s Ambassador to London Tzipi Hotovely, claimed that the latest nuclear deal put to the Iranians is a dangerous one that poses as much a threat to London and Washington as it does to Tel Aviv, urging the UK and other close allies in the West to reject this agreement.

The United States unilaterally withdrew from the landmark deal in 2018 and reinstated crippling sanctions under the so-called “maximum pressure” campaign despite Iran’s full compliance with the deal.

Since last year, the Austrian capital has been hosting multiple rounds of talks between the signatories of the deal in order to examine the prospects of the deal’s revival, which would include the removal of the illegal economic sanctions.

The negotiations have seen many interruptions due to Washington’s refusal to respect Iran’s red lines.

The European Union, which acts as the coordinator in indirect talks between Tehran and Washington, recently came up with a draft proposal to revive the deal. Tehran offered its response, which the bloc described as “reasonable.”

The United States, for its part, took several weeks to offer its response to Iran’s comments. On Friday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kan’ani said Tehran has offered its opinion on the US’s response to the EU draft text for the JCPAO revival.

Iran submits views on US response to EU draft text on reviving 2015 deal

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“The text that was sent (by Iran) has a constructive approach aimed at finalizing the negotiations,” Kan’ani added.

In another tweet on Friday, Hosseini Matin said the “terrorist regime” in Tel Aviv, founded on the basis of occupation and violation of international law, has a decades-long history of “fake accusations against Iran’s peaceful nuclear program.”

The JCPOA is an international document endorsed by the UN Security Council Resolution 2231, the Iranian envoy added.

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